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Im looking for your methods of painting the red part of the boba fett helmet from ESB. Im not having trouble with the red or the aluminum scratches, but that transparent Blue/grey is not turning out for me. Do you guys paint the silver layer, then the red, then mask it again and do the Blue/Grey? thats wht it looks like but I cant find a post that deals specifically with this part of the helmet. thx

Thats kinda a tricky area. I did this part of the bucket last. Lots of guys do the topical approach and have had great success. I chose to use the layered/masking technique. I started by painting the helmet silver. Then figure out which areas you want silver to show through. draw these on with soft pencil, then use liquid mask to cover all these areas, (I used stuff called incredible white mask, available at hobby lobby) then paint the entire area with your gray. Once that is dry, you can remove your liquid mask and hopefully everything you masked is silver, and everything else is grey. Now remask all your silver, and draw on where you want your grey to show through. Mask the grey areas, then spray your red color. After dry, you should be able to remove the mask, and all the silver and gray ares should show through, and you'll have a nice layered effect. Of course if you are planning to go topical, then everything I just said is irrelevant Hope that gives you an idea